Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Tina: You can get even flatter Astia if you overexpose it and under develop it just a bit. I shoot it at 80 and soup it exactly 6 minutes in the Jobo (my normal Fuji E-6 time is 6:30). Less contrasty than Astia? I don't think there is one. I'll be interested to see what suggestions you get. Tom >LUGnuts - > >I'm planning for a trip to the Mosquito Coast in July. The color >transparency film that I usually use - Fuji Astia or Provia - is >much too contrasty for the extremely harsh sun there. Ordinarily, I >love the skin tones of Astia and the beautiful greens of Provia, but >I've been disappointed in the past with the dense shadows and >washed-out highlights that I've gotten using those films in the >impossibly bright light of the Mosquito Coast. Can anybody >recommend a lower contrast transparency film that I can try out? >I'd love to do only black and white, but that's not a choice. > >Thanks - > >Tina > > >Tina Manley, ASMP >http://www.tinamanley.com Thomas Kachadurian - ------------------- www.kachadurian.com